Combination comb and hat-fastener.



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B. LEU & V. SJDSTRDM. CUMBINATION 00MB AND HAT FASTENER. (Applicationled Nov. 2'7` 1901.)

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BERTHA LEU AND VICTOR SJOSTROM, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINATEON CONIB AND HAT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,691, dated NovemberA4, 1902. Application filed November 27. 1901. Serial No. 83,913. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it' may concern:

Be it known that we, BERTHA LEU, a citizen of the Confederation ofSwitzerland, and VIC- TOR SJOSTROM, a subject of the King of Sweden andNorway, both residing in the city of Los Angeles, in the county of LosAngeles and State of California, have invented certain devices forfastening hats, for holding the hair, and for fastening ornaments to thehead of wearers of the said devices, whereof the followingisa full,clear, and exact description or specification, reference being had tothe anneXed sheets of drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

Our said invention, which relates to a new or improved device forfastening hats to the head of the wearer and for holding the hair of thehead in place, more especially the long back hair of women, is alsoadapted for fastening ornaments of any kind to the front part of thedevice, so as either to be carried upon pins external to the hat or tobe worn upon or by the points of the device when used as a carrier ofornaments without being at the same time used for fastening a hat to thehead of the user or wearer; and our invention consists as follows: of along curved duplex pin, formed somewhat after the manner of what iscommonly known as a hair-pin, which may be of various suitable shapesand sizes, having fastened to the bow or head of the closed end thereofa pair of pivoted frames, each of which frames is capable of sufticientmovement around or upon its pivot to be bent outward from the hair-pinpart of our device, and when each of such pivoted parts are openedoutward the device is in position for being applied to the head of thewearer in the manner now to be described.

The device is pushed into the portion of the hair which usually is wornfastened together in a plaited or twisted projection or knot at theupper part of the back of the head of women, and when sufficientlypushed into this part of the hair of the wearer the two lateral or sideframes of the device are moved upon their pivots and pushed in under thepinned or knotted portion of her back hair.

When it is desired to use the device for fas-A tening the hat upon thehead, so soon as the device is placed by means of its central orhair-pin part into the hair in the manner hereinbefore described the hatis then placed upon the head of the wearer in positionthat is to say,with the two projecting sharppointed prongs .which constitute the upperand outer ends of the device within the hollow part of the hat-and thenthe side portions ofthe device are pushed inward by mov ing them ontheir pivots until they close against and thereby become fastened in thehair of the wearer. This act of closing in the rear portions of thepivoted frames causes the sharp-pointed projections at the front endthereof to be moved downward and projected outward, so that thismovement of the sharp-pointed projecting portions causes them to bepressed into the interior or hollow of the hat, and at the same time, asthe movinginward of the rear portions of the frames is continued, to beforced through or onto the material of the hat and at the same timewhile being forced thereinto to pull the hat into its proper Wearingposition on the head. Vhen it is desired to wear a protector or anornament upon the sharp points of the projecting portions of the frames,then a small ball of any suitable material or other ornament may beplaced tightly upon the point of each frame, and such points may also beused to carry a tiara or other ornament of head decoration used bywomen, andthe rear and front parts of the pivoted frames may also beused for attaching flowers, ribbons, or other ornaments to.

Upon the annexed drawings, Figure l is a plan of our device constructedof aluminium or celluloid or tortoise-shell or ebonite or of other stiffmaterial of light weight, but which may also be constructed of metallicWire, preferably of steel 0r hard brass Wire, and electroplated withgold, silver, or otherwise ornamentally finished. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of the same device corresponding to Fig. 1.

Upon Figs. 1 and 2 the hair-pin partof the device is marked A, and thelateral or side frames are marked B aud B', respectively. Each of thesaid frames B and B is pivoted to the central hair-pin portion A bymeans of a pivot C, as more particularly shown in the transversesection, Fig. 2. Each of the said frames B and B is constructed withprongs or equivalent projections D and D',

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which are by preference of curved form, the curves being struck from thecenter of the pivot C, so that the prongs readily move into the pinnedor matted or knotted part of the hair of the wearer and do not in anywise tangle the same, but by reason of their curved form are easilymoved inward and outward upon the pivot C. Upon the upper part of eachside frame B and B are formed each of the sharp-pointed projectingprongs E and F, respectively, which sharp-pointed prongs, as or. whenthe frames B and B are opened outward upon their pivot C, are at a lessdistance apart than when moved inward or into their closed position.Because of this when the frames B and B are in their opened position, asshown by the dotted lines in Fig. l, the distance of the sharp-pointedprongs E and F is such that the hollow of a hat may be placed easilyover the same in the required position on the head of the wearer, andwhen the side frames B and B' are closed into the position shown in fulllines in Fig. 1 then the sharp-pointed prongs E and' F are moved so thatthey engage with and become forced through the sides of the hat, andbeing pulled farther downward cause the hat also to be pulled intowearing position upon the head of the wearer. XVhen the hat is thusfastened upon the head of a wearer, it is irmly secured thereto and isreadily removed therefrom by opening out the side frames B and B' againinto the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, and when so desiredthe points of the prongs E and F may be covered with an ornamental ball,such as is shown in Fig. l, or with any other ornamental device-such,for example, as owers or feathers or other ornament not infrequentlyworn by women for head decoration-and it will readily be seen that therear part of the device-viz., the frames B and B-may have ribbons orother ornament tied or otherwise fastened to them without interferingwith the operation of our said invention.

In constructing the device the parts thereof in or about the pivotedjoint of the frames B and B' are preferably constructed so as to inclosethe jointed or moving parts from catching the hair of the wearer, andthis is effected by means of the shield-like inclosure of the pivotedparts, as more particularly shown at H on the inclosed drawings.

Having now described our said invention and the best system, mode, ormanner we are at present acquainted with for carrying the same intopractical effect, we desire to observe in conclusion that what weconsider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the inventionto be secured to us by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The device for holding a hat upon the head of the wearer, forholdingthe hair of the wearer and for fastening ornaments or other headdecorations to, consisting of a central part constituted of a curved pinconstructed after the manner of a hair-pin, to the upper or outer orclosed end of which there are pivoted two frames, the rear part of eachof which frames iucloses the hair to be fastened, and by which thedevice is partly fastened to the head of the wearer; while theprojecting front portions consisting of the sharp-pointed horns orprojections enter into the material of and fasten the hat to the head ofthe wearer, all operating in the manner and for the purposessubstantially as hereinbefore described.

2. The combination of the central hair-pin, the pivoted side frames withteeth or projections on the inner edge of said side frames, for engagingwith the hair of the wearer, and the projecting sharp-pointed horns atthe front part of the pivoted side frames, all operating in the mannerand for thepurposes substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof we, the said BERTHA LEU and VICTOR SJosTRoM, havehereunto set our hands and seals, this 1st day of October, 1901, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

BERTHA LEU. [L. s. VICTOR SJOSTROM. [L S. lVitnesses:

ST. JOHN DAY, WILLIAM E. MURRAY.

